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In honor of #WorldAIDSDay, let's talk about Princess Diana's HIV/AIDs advocacy! In season four of THE CROWN, we see Princess Diana’s visit to the Harlem Hospital pediatric AIDS unit in

ArisTHOTle (Feet Pic Stan)

Mr_Alexius

Black men are the weakest link.Watch this video and read my breakdown to get a full understand.https://twitter.com/quietdreamerr/status/1355040725486940163 Ignoring the video for a moment and focusing on the comments, your see

John B

johnb78

Thread on why Australia really needs international aviation even during the pandemic, why international airlines don't like Victoria's quarantine restrictions, and why that's a problem for us without many good

Adam Kucharski

AdamJKucharski

Why do COVID-19 modelling groups typically produce ‘scenarios’ rather than long-term forecasts when exploring possible epidemic dynamics? A short thread... 1/ Coverage of modelling is often framed as if epidemics

Dr Matt Prescott

mattprescott

As far as I am concerned Boris JOHNSON is toast, as are all of his CABINET colleagues who have been universally useless, alienating and dishonest. I therefore think it might

eugyppius

eugyppius1

THREAD CONT'd. Yesterday, we studied the evolution of Corona reporting from Vox, an important barometer of elite American opinion. Vox downplayed the pandemic in Feb, but adopted alarmist tones suddenly

Danny Boy

Care2much18

I saw a prominent politician discuss the 134,000 passenger numbers for July, feeding into baseless fears and deflecting from our pressing Covid19 issues.3.5 million passengers went through Dublin Airport in

David Leonhardt

DLeonhardt

A thread: Early in the pandemic, progressive, technocratic governments were clearly doing a better job at managing it than populist, right-wing governments. Consider Canada vs the U.S. Or E.U. vs

Carl T. Bergstrom

CT_Bergstrom

1. As you may know, I'm a strong advocate of COVID testing. For the past few months, I've been collaborating with the people at @Color Genomics to understand how workplace

Natalie E. Dean, PhD

nataliexdean

Our group's household secondary attack rate meta-analysis has gained traction, but not for the reasons I'd hoped for. We did not conclude "no asymptomatic or pre-symptomatic spread" of SARS-CoV-2. A

Jason L. Salemi, PhD

JasonSalemi

1/ Now that @HealthyFla is reporting cumulative person-level testing results stratified on pg 1 of their daily statewide #COVID19 report:I've been getting MANY questions about why some seemingly simple calculations

Justin Stearns

kaohu11

It has long been a custom in the Islamic world to compose collections of 40 Hadith (sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad) for believers to memorize. Thread for the

Debra Caplan

debra_caplan

1/ Dr. Max Starkloff was a hero who saved countless lives in St. Louis during the Spanish flu pandemic. City governments today ought to follow his example to mitigate the

Jeffrey Barrett

jcbarret

Out today: two academic publications (not yet peer reviewed) that formally test whether the new B.1.1.7 variant is more transmissible. Both conclude yes, about 50% more. First, a pre-print

Dr Sally Le Page

sallylepage

STRONG OPINION: There are very very few cases where log scales should be used in communicating data to the general public.This is not one of them.https://twitter.com/newscientist/status/1332274550617288704 On a log scale,

Resa #MaskUp Lewiss MD

ResaELewiss

We #POCUS community should intentionally culture change for improved diversity, equity, and inclusion. Good example: @coreultrasound episode w/@DrAlexisLa + @UAtesseract HT @UltrasoundMD speaking as subject matter experts and their voices

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